Take THAT

Yeah, fuck you, salad. You just got ATE.

NO EXCUSES!

Thu 19th. 

Breakfast: Up'N'Go and a banana

Lunch: The forecast is for salad

There was an email from Michelle Bridges in my inbox this morning. Get Real. No More Excuses. This is a time for reflection. A time to take a good honest look at myself, and figure out where it all went wrong. I think I've figured it out:

*Deep breath*

• I'm a lazy office worker who always makes excuses to not do anything that is good for myself. Current excuses include:
• I'm too tired.
• This is the LAST bacon bagel.
• No, this is the last bacon bagel.
• It's okay to eat crap today, because I'm going to start working out tomorrow.
• My foot hurts.
• I don't feel well.
• I'm too stressed.

But it's gotten to the point where I need to make a decision. I can continue not exercising and eating shit, but I have to also be comfortable with having man-boobs. I've got to say, I'm NOT happy with man boobs, and that unhappiness really outweighs any positives I could get out of eating "comfort food". So, as usual, my motivation is Big Boobs.

I had a gym appraisal yesterday morning. I've gained almost 6kgs in the last 6-7 months. My fitness level hasn't dropped too far, thankfully, but I've definitely undone a lot of the good work I did with P90X early last year. Time to get back on that horse, and this time get it done.

I rode to work this morning, 14kms. I forgot my gloves and helmet, but it's fine since it was on bike paths the entire way. I had a backpack that weighed probably ten kgs, so if we add everything together:

Bike: 6kgs

Bag: 10kgs

Fat Ass: 93kgs

That's not bad. I hauled 109kg's for 14 km's, and I'll have to haul it another 14km's into the afternoon wind later today. That's close to 30km's a day of hauling my fat ass up and down the freeway. That should be a good start.

Current Goal: Lose 5kgs in the Preseason

12WBT

Okay, so I mentioned that I've started the Mish Bridges12 Week Body Transmogrification Online Course and Lifestyle Plan. The forums over there are just going fucking bananas with new people posting, so you know it's popular. I'm not really sure where I should be going or what I should be doing there, so I'll just wait for more instructions from the Almighty Mish.

Fortunately I'm coming into the program with a good friend, so I don't need to wade through the masses to try and find Mr Right (for working out with). I'm seeing a lot of "single" people from my area join up, particularly some older people that are doing this whole exercise thing for the first time. I just want to hug them all and be their workout partner and whisper in their ear "shhh, it's okay, it will all be okay". But I think the logistics would be nightmarish.

I'm thinking salad for lunch today. I've got my gym appraisal tomorrow morning, so if I start eating healthy now, I should be fit by tomorrow morning?

Somewhere inside this big fat guy, is a skinny 90's grunge dude waiting to escape.

Okay. So this is what I looked like about 10 years ago. I really need that face back. My sanity depends on it.
I tried uploading a recent photo of myself but it said "bandwidth exceeded". Way to call me fat, computer.

Day 1

So, here I am, dieting again.

It really sucks that I've gotten to that point in life where I have to start watching what goes into my gob. Gone are the carefree days of youth when I could eat anything I liked and stay as thin as a rake. Ah well.

So a friend has talked me into doing the Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation. It's currently day 1 of the preseason (which looks like it will last about a month). I've decided I'll use this blog to keep up to date on what I'm eating, what exercising I'm doing, and how badly I want to die.

So I went to the doctor and said "my wife isn't interested in me sexually anymore" and he told me I should maybe try to diet.

"Great idea!" I replied. "What colour do you suggest?"





Ugh. So, day 1. Feeling short and fat. No exercise planned just yet. Going to go home from work, think about exercising, and then reward myself with food for all those good thoughts.